 |
| Maria Cavalcanti, representative of Toniic |
On the 3rd of April 2014 the University of
St.Gallen supported the launch event of the Toniic E-Guide in Portuguese. The
event took place at the Impact Hub São Paulo and was attended by many
representatives of the Brazilian Impact Investing ecosystem.
The introductory opening was done by
Angélica Rotondaro,
from the
University of St.Gallen, who presented the event’s main purpose, the
speakers, as well as how the university supports the development of the impact
investing market place in Brazil. Angélica underlined that the University of
St.Gallen focuses on the generation of academic knowledge, the transmission of
knowledge through education, courses and lectures as well as the annual Impact
Investing Conference, already planned for the 14th of August 2014 in São Paulo.
The next speaker was
Maria Cavalcanti, from FIRST Impact
Investing Fund Brazil, who was the representative of Toniic for the E-Guide
launch. In the course of the event, Maria presented the Toniic Guide for Early
Stage Global Impact Investing as a schema to support the development of Impact
Investing businesses. Thereby, the E-Guide is a very helpful and useful tool to
structure the different phases of Impact Investing, increasing the
possibilities for positive outcome.
Diana de Castro, from
ACG Association for Corporate GrowthBrasil, talked about the challenges of the Impact Investing industry. With her
background in private banking, she underlined the importance of clear
definitions of the terms Impact Investing in differentiation to e.g. social
responsible investing. Diana also highlighted the importance of the
identification of potential clients that have the possibility to take Impact
Investing from margins to mainstream, such as the private banking industry,
family offices or high-net-worth individuals.
Célia Cruz, from
ICE
(Instituto Cidadania Empresarial) picked up the idea of accelerating the
Impact Investing industry. She highlighted the importance of integrating the
academic actors in the field in order to anchor the ideas of Impact Investing
in university education as well as in research. Consequently, she talked about the
efforts of ICE to engage the universities to reach for academic players in the
field. Additionally, she presented Forum Brasileiro de Finanças Sociais e
Negócios de Impacto, which will take place in São Paulo on the 6
th
and 7
th of May 2014.
The next speaker was
Rebeca Rocha, from
ANDE (Aspen Network
of Development Entrepreneurs), who did a short reporting back on the impact
investors mapping study for Brazil, coordinated by ANDE, Quintessa, and LGT-VP
in collaboration with the University of St.Gallen. Rebeca also emphasized the
importance of focusing the efforts on the development of the Impact Investing
industry by strengthening the connections to powerful clients in order to
release the Impact potential and to build and consolidate the market. She also
talked about the need to take the possibility of Impact Investing in Brazil to
an international audience as well as to expand the support for projects to
greater variety of geographic locations inside Brazil.
Flávio Giani Ramos took the role of bringing the
entrepreneurs’ viewpoint to the conference and did an introduction about his
business
Educar 3.0. He also talked about the most common challenges of being
an entrepreneur of impact in Brazil. The entrepreneurs’ view-point was also
covered by
João Vitor Caires, from
The Impact Hub São Paulo, who did an introduction
about the concept, events and organizational structure of the Impact Hub São
Paulo. He also brought up an overview of how the global Impact Hub movement.
The University of St.Gallen Hub São Paulo would like to
thank Toniic and FIRST Investment Brasil for the trust to jointly organize the
E-Guide launch event. We would also like to thank the sustainability committee
of the Swiss Chamber of Commerce for their support. The E-Guide launch also
counted on the support of ACG Association for Corporate Growth Brasil, Halloran Philantropies, The Impact Hub,
Editora de Idéias.
For accessing the impact investing E-Guide please click here.
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.